Nengi Omuku (b. 1987, Nigeria) lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. She received her BA (2010) and MA (2012) from the Slade School of Art, University College London. In June 2026, Omuku will have her first institutional solo exhibition in the US at de Young Museum, San Francisco. She is currently presenting We Were Like Those Who Dreamed, her second solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. In 2023, the artist’s first institutional exhibition in the UK, The Dance of People and the Natural World, opened at Hastings Contemporary, before travelling to the Arnolfini, Bristol in 2024. Other recent exhibitions include Watering a Black Garden, OSCAM, Amsterdam (2026); HOME, Manchester (2025); Space UN, Tokyo (2025); Hauser & Wirth, Bruton, UK (2025);Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA (2024-5); The 15th Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2024-5); Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (2024-5); the Whitworth, Manchester (2023-4); Kasmin, New York, NY (2024); Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2023-24); Saint Louis Art Museum, MO (2023-24); Kristin Hjellegjerde, West Palm Beach, FL, (2023);Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2023); Gagosian, London (2023); Bangkok Art Biennale (2022-2023), and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2022). Collections include Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Government Art Collection, UK; The Norton Museum of Art, FL; The Whitworth, Manchester; Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; The Newark Museum of Art; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL.